Indoor meetings are on the 3rd Wednesday of each month, Sept - May, except Dec., at 7:00 p.m. at the UW Arboretum, Seminole Highway, Madison.
Specifics on program / activities appear in the Community Calendar of the "Isthmus" free in many Madison shops & libraries each Thurs.
Summer tours, projects and locations vary. We invite the public to most programs.
For details, and if you would like to be on our notifications email list, contact Barb Glassel 608 819-0087, e-mail.
For tours, please check with Laurie Yahr & Rich Kahl, 608 274-6539, e-mail.
To receive our monthly email newsletter, 2 pages full of info, send an email to our editor, Laurie Yahr e-mail. with subject line Madison Wild Ones Newsletter.

TOURSTentative hikes and tours, led by Laurie Yahr and/or Rich Kahl, are listed in or just below the chapter meeting schedule. Contact Laurie as dates approach, since last-minute changes may occur.

Simon Widstrand presents Stewardship of Madison Parks' Natural Areas at the Arboretum Visitor Center at 7 P.M. He will be describing his 5-year experience with volunteer stewardship, leading to the start of a volunteer network. See Si's blog, citizenstewardsofpublicland.com for progress reports. Open to the public, so come and meet new members and others who support stewardship.

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Karner Blue Butterflies Update by John Shillinglaw at 7 p.m. at the UW Arboretum. Johnny Lupine-seed's adventures with spreading wild lupine seed, since native Lupines are the only food source for caterpillars of the endangered Karner Blue Butterfly. Bring a guest.

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Transplant Party at Frank and Carol Hassler's. Help transplant Milkweed, several species, from seedlings germinated in flats, into 2-inch pots. Distribution to school children and Monarchs projects will start in May. Volunteer for Farmers' Market dates, to be coordinated by our Monarchs / Milkweeds chair, Jeanette Tierney.

The Wild Ones mission is to educate and share information with members and community at the "plant-roots" level and to promote biodiversity and environmentally sound practices.

Ecology

Vegetation of Wisconsin, An Ordination of Plant Communities. John T. Curtis, 1959. University of Wisconsin Press. Original comprehensive treatise but a
lot of the Latin names of plants have been changed. ($44.95)

Wisconsin's Natural Communities: How to Recognize Them, Where to Find Them. Randy Hoffman, 2002. University of Wisconsin Press. 375 pages.
Thirty-five plant community descriptions including distribution maps and lists of special and uncommon species of plants (including, mosses and lichens and mushrooms)
and animals (including reptiles and amphibians, mollusks and snails, birds, mammals, insects, spiders, and invertebrates and fish when applicable). ($24.95)

Landscape Intervention Prescriptions

Checklist of the Vascular Plants of Wisconsin, Technical Bulletin
No. 192. Mark Allen Wetter, Theodore S. Cochrane, Merel R. Black, Hugh H. Iltis,
and Paul E Berry. 2001. Few plant drawings; this is not an I. D. book. Lists
native plant species and variants of Wisconsin, identifying those of special
concern, threatened, endangered as well as introduced; noting also spreading,
adventive and invasive exotics and natives. (http://www.botany.wisc.edu/wisflora/)

Wisconsin Manual of Control Recommendations for Ecologically Invasive Plants. Randy Hoffman and Kelly Kearns, editors, 1997. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of Endangered Resources. Line drawings of 20 exotics and
10 native translocated or opportunistic species with recommended control methods,
and a checklist of potentially invasive exotic trees, shrubs, vines, forbs, grasses
and aquatics plus several other natives to keep an eye on. (http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/land/er/invasive/manual_toc.htm)

Plant Identification Books

The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Eastern Region. W. A. Niering and N. C. Olmstead. 2001. ($19.95)

A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and Northcentral North America. Roger Tory Peterson, and Margaret McKenny. Houghton Mifflin Company. 420 pages. ($17.10)

Growing and Propagating Wild Flowers. Harry R. Phillips. 1985. The University of North Carolina Press. Practical advice on propagation and
cultivation including designs for sun and shade locations and companion plants for about 100 plants with drawings, including some carnivorous plants and ferns. (Few photos). ($19.95)

A Guide to Wildflowers in Winter. Carol Levine. 1995. Yale
University Press. Black and white photos of basil rosettes and drawings of seeds,
seed heads, seed pods, capsules, achenes, etc. for 391 species of herbaceous plants including some grasses, sedges and ferns. ($17.95)

Illustrated Companion to Gleason and Cronquist's Manual. Noel H. Holmgren. 1998. New York Botanical Garden. 937 pages. With approximately five
drawings per page this book provides representation of approximately 4135 species
with no text. ($125.00)

Manual of Vascular Plants of Northeastern United States and Adjacent
Canada. Henry A. Gleason and Arthur Cronquist 1991 Second Edition. New York
Botanical Garden. 910+ pages. This is a technical key, with no photos or drawings. ($69.00)

The New England Wild Flower Society guide to Growing and Propagating Wildflowers of the United States and Canada. William Cullina. 2000.
Houghton and Mifflin Company. Beautiful photos, excellent "related comments such as insect interaction and soil preference" but lacks natural distribution
information. ($32.00)

North Woods Wildflowers. Doug Ladd. 2001. 271 pages. A Falcon photo field guide to wild flowers of Northeastern US and southeastern Canada. ($24.95)

Amphibians of Wisconsin. Bebecca Christoffel, Robert Hay and
Michelle Wolfgram. Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, Bureau of
Endangered Resources. 2001. Small format with 44 pages of 19 frogs, toads, newts, salamanders, and mudpuppies of the state. (Out of print.)

Color Guide to Common Dragonflies of Wisconsin. Karl and Dorothy Legler, and Dave Westover. Revised 1998. Self produced, Sauk City Wi. If you
haven't looked closely at some of the 110 flying jewels we have in Wisconsin, you
don't know what you are missing. Close focusing binoculars recommended. ($19.95,
Karl Legler, 429 Franklin St., Sauk City, WI 53583,
http://userpages.itis.com/karlndot/)

Peterson First Guide to Caterpillars. Amy Bartlett Wright. 1993. 120 common and conspicuous caterpillars and the butterflies and moths they become. Houghton Mifflin Company. ($5.95)

Sustain Danewww.sustaindane.org has launched a news section dedicated to providing community members with critical local
information regarding sustainability related issues. If you have a local news story or press release to submit, please include your name, news source and author of story and if possible a link to the entire story and a brief summary.

They also have a SUSTAINABILITY section allowing community members
to view pictures of sustainable or unsustainable elements in the area.

Prairie Restoration websites

The Savanna Oak Foundation announces a new web sitewww.savannaoak.org which deals with the restoration
of the Pleasant Valley Conservancy, a complex of prairies, oak savannas, and
wetlands in the Driftless area of western Dane County. This attractive natural
area has been under restoration for the past eight years and the website describes
the progress that has been made. The well-illustrated website provides considerable detail on restoration activities and techniques used, such as controlled burns, weed eradication, brush cutting, aspen control, and removal of invasive trees.
Extensive illustrated species lists are given.

Landscape Demographics

Check out the U.S. Forest Service's "Changing Midwest Landscape" atwww.ncrs.fs.fed.us/4153/deltawest.
This is part of the website for the U.S. Forest Service's North Central Research Station and
chronicles the dramatic shifts in the Midwest's forests, plants, animals, and
people between 1980 and 2000. It shows you where and how the natural and human landscape of the Midwest has changed over the last two decades. The website will
evolve with projections of future change and an interactive capability.